After You...

Dear Lucy💔💖

How bittersweet to sit at your kitchen table

without you bustling about,

pouring tea and serving far more food

 than one could possibly eat!!

But, seeing you in your daughter

sweetened the bitter ache of missing you so...

Lucy's kitchen window yesterday,

like a framed work of God-art!

Dear Lucy

There will still be love and laughter

Time will still fling wide dawn's door

But death leaves life, ever after

Never like it was before

There will still be hills/thrills and hollows

Much to chase and much to choose

But no matter what still follows

No one will quite fill your shoes

There will still be dreams and dances

Across Mercy's ballroom floor

But a lifetime of fresh chances

Cannot grant what was before

There will still be grace-bent gladness

Memories, precious and new

But, not without pangs of sadness

That death left in place of you

There will still be love and laughter

Hopes to seize and joys to claim

But no matter what comes after

Nothing will be quite the same

Love always,

Janet

View from your driveway...